Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does a counter-monument refuse permanence and elevation rather than simply adopting a modern style?
Hints
- Ask what the refusals are refusing.
- If the object does the remembering, the visitor need not.
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C. A permanent, elevated, complete monument lets the visitor delegate the remembering to the object
Why
Because the refusals are structural. The argument is that an object which is permanent, elevated and complete does the remembering on the visitor's behalf, so a form that sinks, inverts or requires participation puts the work back on them. A counter-monument in a modern style that stays put has changed the appearance and not the mechanism.
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